Kate Crisalli, Associate Director and Peter Kramer, Director at Nonprofit Finance Fund write "Nonprofits of all sizes, but especially smaller organizations and those led by people of color and other marginalized populations, have suffered from chronic underinvestment as constrained resources favor...more »

STOP has just started and aims to bring new meaning to the phrase "asking for a light," when it comes to smoking. STOP is an acronym for a new $20 million Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative to create a global watchdog to shed more light on the tobacco industry's complex marketing and sales...Read more @ Forbes

In 2016, the Ford Foundation set out on an experiment—give $1 billion to social justice nonprofits, with all funds going to a combination of general operating support and organizational strengthening.
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The foundation awarded forty-five grants totaling nearly $1.6 million through its Arts focus area, including a grant of $230,000 to Creative New Jersey, which works to foster creativity, cross-sector collaboration, and inclusion as a way to build thriving, equitable communities.
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The Ford and W.K. Kellogg foundations recently teamed up with Borealis Philanthropy to launch the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund. The fund just released its first round of grants, totaling $14 million, which will go to advancing racial equity and promoting diversity within the philanthropic and...Read more @ Inside Philanthropy